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Blood on the Page: Chanelle Benz’s “The Gone Dead”

In Chanelle Benz’s The Gone Dead (Ecco), the dead aren’t really gone. Billie James has returned to the dilapidated house in Greendale, Mississippi, where her father, a renowned black poet, lived. She hasn’t seen it in thirty years. “She had forgotten about the house, figured it’d been knocked down forever…
Neil Nyren
June 24, 2019
Thrillers

War, Criminality, and “The Right Sort of Man”

“Did your hunch prove correct?” asked Gwen. “It did,” replied Iris, as she began typing her notes of the interview. “What was it about?” “Her stockings.” “Were her seams not straight?” “The seams were straight,” said Iris. “The girl is crooked.” It is June 1946 in London. The war is…
Neil Nyren
May 31, 2019
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Harper’s Dark Storm of Suspense

In Karen Harper’s latest South Shores Series installment, Dark Storm, (MIRA)  a forensic psychologist Claire Markwood and her husband, criminal lawyer Nick, are on a harrowing, very personal adventure. This time, Claire’s younger sister Darcy goes missing, but when Claire heads to the butterfly sanctuary in southern Florida where Darcy…
Wendy Tyson
June 6, 2019
Thrillers

Finder’s Lastest Thriller with a Compromised Judge

For those of us who try to live our lives in a judgment-free zone, what are we to make of Joseph Finder’s latest thriller, Judgment (Dutton)? Should we judge Juliana Brody for not wanting to stay cooped up in her hotel room after nailing a speech at a legal conference?…
Jim Alkon
January 28, 2019
Thrillers

A Mystery and a Mind Unravel in “The Silent Patient”

Alex Michaelides grew up reading Agatha Christie “obsessively,” but she never wrote anything like this. The Silent Patient (Celadon Books) grips you immediately, but where it goes is completely unpredictable – and it takes you to dark corners of the human psyche you never knew existed. “I love him so totally,…
Neil Nyren
February 6, 2019
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: FBI Agent Pendergast Partners Up

FBI Special Agent Pendergast is assigned to work with a new partner in Verses for the Dead (Grand Central), the latest thriller in Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s hugely popular series. And, as fans of the famously rogue operative might expect, Pendergast finds that almost as challenging as the series of…
R.G. Belsky
January 8, 2019
Thrillers

Marty Weiss: A High-Stakes Financial Thriller

Who are “they”?  “They” are Flamingo Enterprises of Grand Cayman Island.  And in Flamingo Coast (Rare Bird Books), the new thriller by Martin Jay Weiss, they are harboring Max Culpepper, a criminal hedge fund manager who – out on bail in Manhattan, awaiting trial – has escaped.  Escaped and is…
Jim Parry
January 10, 2019
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: A Paranormal NYC in “The Spectral City”

When she’s not writing bestselling and award-winning Gothic Victorian Fantasy, Leanna Renee Hieber moonlights as a licensed ghost tour guide in New York City’s Boroughs of the Dead. Perhaps that should come as no surprise. An online search for “ghosts of New York City” yields more than 80 million results,…
Jaden Terrell
December 6, 2018
Thrillers

True Washington Insider Pens Twisty Legal Thriller

The Eighteenth Green (Beaufort Books) billed as a Jack Patterson Thriller by Webb Hubbell, is a fast-paced, twisty legal thriller set in Washington. The reader gets that the author really knows Washington, how the U.S. government works, and the lengths the government will go against someone.  The government will imprison…
Jim Parry
November 21, 2018
Thrillers

Robert B. Parker’s Blood Feud: Chatting with Mike Lupica

As a reviewer and insider, Ryan Steck has been called “the Godfather of the thriller genre.” In this first contributed piece to BookTrib, Ryan names every thriller hitting the bookshelves this fall that genre aficionados should know about. Visit Ryan at www.therealbookspy.com. Replacing an icon can’t be easy, but you wouldn’t know…
Ryan Steck
November 30, 2018

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